"Young Master Yin is a very rare surname. I don't know where you live, where you are from, and whether you have a wife or children at home. We would like to express our gratitude to your family and see if we can have a meal together?"
"What do you do for a living? How big is your business? If you find me useful in the future, I will definitely help you with your business."
"Young Master Yin knows my little sister, right? Thank you very much."
"..."
After Mr. Xu expressed his gratitude in various ways, he burst into tears.
The boy in the hall quickly sent a piece of "information" to Mr. Xu——
"Silver Fox is not this person's real name, it is just a nickname used in the world of travel and business. He is a member of the Sudanese Empire. He has no wife or children. The brothers have separated long ago and have no contact with each other anymore."
"He has two top caravans under his name, one specializes in shipping to the South Seas and may have a special edict for shipping, and the other specializes in trade in the Western Regions. He earns a lot of money every year, and his net worth is estimated to be - quite a lot."
Mr. Xu looked at the information and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Is there an exclusive edict for shipping? This thing is a rare item."
Because the people of the late emperor once escaped from the sea with the help of Nanyang merchants.
Therefore, after Emperor Ming ascended the throne, he overturned the former emperor's order to open the sea and implemented a ban on sea, which prohibited people from doing business with foreigners.
This policy immediately led to the decline of coastal commerce, and the merchants and people along the coast fell into huge living difficulties. Many people went bankrupt and fell into extreme poverty, and even had to sell themselves into slavery.
It was not until Cang Qiao took power that he somehow persuaded the stubborn Emperor Ming to issue a shipping edict to some people, allowing them to trade with Nanyang and Westerners at fixed ports.
But over the years, only a dozen or so maritime edicts have been issued.
These caravans paid heavy taxes to the court every year, but they almost monopolized the business, so they were still extremely rich.
Xu Xiuyi had already finished taking a bath, changed into a plain dress, and was sitting in the flower hall of her embroidery building, drinking the ginger soup that her wet nurse had cooked for her.
She said calmly: "He may be from Dongchang. My daughter has seen Yinhu and Jiuqiansui interacting closely in the black market. They seem to have a very good relationship. Yinhu talks very casually in front of the governor."
Even bohemian.
Mr. Xu frowned with a complicated expression: "No wonder...he was able to get the shipping order. It turned out that Dongchang was behind it."
"So, father, do you still want to marry me to someone like Silver Fox? Although the thousand-year-old man from Dongchang is sister Ming's uncle, he is not related by blood. Everyone knows how much His Majesty thinks highly of him."
Xu Xiuyi said leisurely.
A truly uptight girl would not mention her marriage in front of her father or even her mother.
But Xu Xiuyi was not afraid to say these words in front of his father.
Her father forced her to keep Yinhu today because he was afraid that he had the intention of marrying her to Yinhu.
Mr. Xu sat down and stroked his beard: "As a father, I just want to know that if the prince's plan fails today, I'm afraid he will have more vicious tricks against you..."
"He even plotted against our entire Xu family. Something happened to my second sister-in-law and third brother today, and I fell into the water. It seems like everything is just a coincidence, but there are so many coincidences in the world, so it must be intentional."
Xu Xiuyi took over his father's words and sighed softly.
"You are the apple of my eye. With your reputation and the background of my Xu family, what kind of good man can't marry me?!"
Mr. Xu trembled with anger when he thought of what happened to his beloved and most sensible daughter today.
"But now the prince is pressing harder. After you fell into the water tonight, you were exposed to the silver fox in front of so many people... It's all a bad father. You shouldn't go to the palace to ask for the imperial doctor today.
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Mr. Xu's face was extremely gloomy, and he just felt that he was sorry for his daughter!!
Seeing the pain in her father's eyes, Xu Xiuyi felt warm in her heart.
If something like this happened to a noble girl from another family, she would probably be scolded to death by her parents.
But although the Xu family has a reputation for being old-fashioned and dogmatic, that's because my father didn't want to take sides, so he acted like a "old-fashioned and dogmatic" official.
These are all dad's wise ways of protecting himself.
In fact, her parents and brothers loved her very much. They raised her in the same way as their brothers at home, and she was equally good at learning martial arts and literature.
After all, they appear to be from a scholarly family, but their Xu family has been a martial arts family for three generations.
Grandpa is the leader of the Wudang Sect. He gave up his position as the leader to become a Jinshi in order to practice in the world.
Those uninhibited chivalrous qualities are engraved in my bones.
"Dad, don't be sad. Compared to the prince, if I can make the prince stop wanting to get involved in our family by marrying Yinhu, then I will marry him."
Xu Xiuyi comforted her father gently. This chapter has been completed!